So Trump made a calculated decision to look "defiant". Instead he just looks like a criminal

[Quixote1818]

He totally miscalculated on this one. It isn't going over the way he hoped it would. He should have smiled and looked unbothered. That photo will live in infamy as FDR would have said!

[Walleye]

1. I believe that it is giving PTSD to rape victims

[TSExile]

5. As a sexual assault survivor...

...EVERYTHING about him gives me PTSD. That mugshot is just the latest.

[Walleye]

9. I'm so sorry that happened to you. Appreciate your perspective

[TSExile]

15. Thank you, my friend.

My assault happened in October 2015. I have been dealing with the assault and its aftermath at the same time T**** rose in politics and his reign of terror ever since.

I honestly believe that if someone - anyone! - else had won the GOP nomination and the presidency in 2016, my recovery would have been so much easier. It would never have gone away completely, of course, but that p***y grabbing, misogynistic raping bully would have been far away from the White House and poisoning minds.

[Walleye]

19. I understand. I hate his assault on our whole country

[electric_blue68]

32. Unfortunately, you make sense that he could effect people w

particularly awful experiences.


Sorry, that horrific experience happened to you, along w his echoing visage.

[TSExile]

41. Thank you so much...

I appreciate your kind words. ❤❤❤❤❤

[Maraya1969]

53. I understand 100% He is an abuser from the start. Sexual is just one of his ways to assault people.

He also uses violence, intimidation and terrorism. I get a bad feeling from him also and I am a survivor. It seems like if you can get through an entire lifetime without being sexually assaulted you are lucky.

[hlthe2b]

10. Yes, a respected body language expert noted his expression denotes: Contempt, Anger, Predation

and it is the predation aspect that sexual assault victims are undoubtedly picking up on.

I'm sorry for those triggered by this horrible man. I'm sorry for all of us that he exists, frankly.

[Walleye]

14. I never thought one man, an American could be such a menace to humanity

[TSExile]

17. Thank you!!

It's nice to know that decent, anti-rape, pro-decency people still exist in this world.

[Hekate]

36. He stalked Hillary around the stage during their debate. I wanted to yell at his female supporters--

“Can’t you see what he is?! He’s a stalker. He’s an assaulter. He’s a menace to us all.”

I was unbelievably creeped out — right there on stage in front of the world he was telling us exactly who he is.

[TSExile]

42. Yup

The last time I saw the man who hurt me was October 9, 2016. That was the same weekend that the now-infamous Access Hollywood tape was dropped. Wasn't that debate also that weekend? I know it was right around that time.

I had known, or thought I had known, the man who hurt me for nearly a decade. I thought he was my friend. I loved him and trusted him. For everything he did to me in October 2015 and beyond that point, I still don't see him as big of a threat as I see T****. While he never had to pay either through criminal or civil court, enough people learned who and what he really was and shunned him...like certain cowardly R politicians SHOULD have done with T****.

[Ocelot II]

2. I think he looks like a bratty toddler who needs a time-out and a nap.

[TheBlackAdder]

34. All the while saying how he was standing up for the average guy and wears this arrest with pride.

[SheilaAnn]

3. He looks like an angry, nasty thug. n/t

[Farmer-Rick]

4. Yeah, it was so hokey

Between his gleaming scalp peeking through his cotton candy hair, his oh so orange skin and his red runny eyes with a look of fear, it just was so ridiculous.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

40. Cotton-candy hair is cuter

Hm. Maybe it's not the cotton-candy, but Peter Gabriel that makes it look good.

Then again, he makes everything look good.

Y
U
M.

Full video here, just for more Peter Gabriel:

[Farmer-Rick]

48. Oh yeah he does

Make cotton candy hair look good.

[duhneece]

6. Deranged. He looks deranged

Multiple posts about characters in Kubrick’s films with this look are going around

[EYESORE 9001]

8. My opinion too

He conveys menace.

[Irish_Dem]

23. He looks deranged, maniacal and dangerous.

When I was a working mental health professional and had been called out to a
hospital emergency room to evaluate this guy, I would have called security for backup.
And I don't scare that easy.

[TSExile]

28. I am more and more convinced...

...that he doesn't even have a soul, and I don't say that lightly.

[Irish_Dem]

29. Despite my training, I believe sometimes sociopaths cross a line into pure evil.

Like Trump, Putin, Hitler, etc.

[yardwork]

30. I believe that the monsters in myths and stories are sociopaths.

Sometimes humans go wrong, and the stories about monsters, including devils, are a way of trying to explain sociopaths.

Was it Shakespeare who wrote, "hell is empty and all the devils are here."

[Irish_Dem]

35. Yes of course, it is only recently we have clinical names for "monster humans."

And yes psychopaths have entered mythology as devils, etc.

The iconic human struggle, good vs evil, all part of human literature and myth.

[yardwork]

38. What I don't understand are the people who follow him.

Can't they tell he's a monster? Are they so frightened, they're willing to follow a madman because he promises to keep them safe?

[Irish_Dem]

39. Yes that is the most important issue we face.

We know that there are evil people, sociopaths, psychopaths, etc.
They make up only about 1-3% of the population.

But these people constitute at least one third to one half of all American leadership.

The biggest question is why the American people idolize them and make them their leaders.
Why are people so easily manipulated to work against their own interests and to destroy
their lives and country.

There is plenty of cult member research about their need for a strong leader to fill
in some missing pieces in their psyche. And about politicians appealing to the dark side of
human nature, and creating chaos and fear to get votes.

But the fact what we are seeing is so widespread, so many Americans and indeed educated
people, attorneys, politicians, leaders who also are willing to destroy our democracy is going
to be studied far into the future.

Steve Schmidt calls it the greatest moral collapse in American history and greatest failure
in terms of civic duty.

If anyone is looking for a dissertation topic, you are looking at one right now in front of you.

[SWBTATTReg]

7. He looks more constipated than anything, like let's get this picture taken so I can run to the rest-

room!

[struggle4progress]

11. The guys at Fox think he looks good and hard

But others are asking "Is this the fake that launched a thousand gyps?"

[Walleye]

12. Half rage, half fear. Nothing else left of the man

He really is too stupid to understand what is happening

[Goonch]

13. 👇👇👇👁️👁️

[yardwork]

31. The strawberries!

[wnylib]

52. Evil personified.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. Unhappy Trump scrambled to get out of having his Georgia mugshot taken: Guardian reporter

I am amused that TFG was trying to get the mug shot waived up until the very last moment.

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-mugshot-2664450945/

Despite all of his bravado and using his Georgia mugshot to rope in more supporters to send him donations, Donald Trump tried in vain to get his lawyers to block having the humiliating picture taken and disseminated to the public.

That is according to the Guardian's Hugo Lowell who appeared on MSNBC early Saturday morning on "The Katie Phang Show" to report on the timeline before the former president was forced to surrender on racketeering charges at an Atlanta jail on Thursday.....

"Ultimately when the mugshot came he decided fundraising would be the way out for him to kind of distract from, really, the indignity and humiliation of having to get a mugshot," Lowell explained. "But from our reporting, speaking to people in his inner circle for the days and weeks leading up to this surrender he was trying to get his lawyers to get an exemption so he wouldn't have to take this mugshot."....

"He wanted none of his personal details to be public," he elaborated, "Then he was pushing his lawyers to negotiate that with the DA's office and the sheriff's office. And when the sheriff's made it very clear he was not gonna get any special treatment that was when they recalibrated and said, 'Fine, if we have to do this we'll fund-raise off it.'"

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[usedtobedemgurl]

49. But I don't understand him trying to get out of a mugshot....

He didn’t even know what a mugshot was!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[gulliver]

18. Trump: "Ok, let me see that one. No. Let's retake it."

Booking officer: "Next."

[RKP5637]

20. He also looks like a patient on the intake ward in a mental hospital. n/t

[ZonkerHarris]

21. He looks like the thug that he truly is in the picture.

[Rebl2]

22. Yep

Just a typical criminal look. What an idiot.

[cornball 24]

24. Looks like he just pooped his pants and there ain't nobody there gonna change his depends!

[Emile]

25. That surrender picture says GUILTY.

[SoFlaBro]

26. Orange Bastard looks like a humped up lump of fetid dog shit in that fucking muggle

shit

[Brainfodder]

27. Pretty sure Mob-y Dick was hiding his turkey neck!

You want him out of the public eye, just SHAVE THAT HEAD!

[NowISeetheLight]

33. Practice

He probably spent hours in front of a mirror practicing different looks.

[Hekate]

37. Yes

[KentuckyWoman]

43. Crude I know, but

I think he looks like he needs a RR and was told he'll have to wait.

[lpbk2713]

44. He looks like a punk.

More than usual.

[tblue37]

45. Like a serial killer.

[Attilatheblond]

46. Also looks like attempted witness intimidation

Page the judge!

[LeftInTX]

47. Looks guilty...Too bad mugshots don't convict!

[MerryBlooms]

50. Angry canary.

[malaise]

51. The surrender photo says

How dare you - I am above the aw no matter what I do

He is about to find out otherwise

[Aristus]

54. The ranks of his followers are filled with 300lbs, douche-bearded

baby-faced losers who think tactical gear and assault rifles make them look tough.

They’re just as delusional as he is.

[zanana1]

55. He just looks pissed.

I think it's hilarious!

[DontBelieveEastisEas]

56. Psycho

It makes him look Deranged.

Like a Dangerous, Criminal Psychopath!

[GoCubsGo]

57. ...he just looks like a criminal--who is trying to hide his neck "vagina."

It's an old actor's trick: Stick your head forward and tilt your chin downward, so that nobody can see what's under your chin. He's not the only one who did that, either. Rudy and a few of the others did, as well.

And, yeah, that's not "defiant." That's petulance mixed with fear. What a fucking clown.